Day One of the Content Pipeline: What Broke and What I Fixed

First-run lessons from an automated content pipeline. Noise, human-only merges, and a backwards production step surfaced in 24 hours.

April 6, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

Automate your content pipeline with GitHub Actions and Issues

Build a daily content mining pipeline that scans your repos and queues post ideas as GitHub issues.

April 5, 2026 · 4 min · Russell

Build a Hugo-to-Dev.to sync engine in Go

How to build a CLI tool in Go that syncs Hugo blog posts to Dev.to via the Forem API, handling canonical URLs, tag sanitization, rate limits, and content transformation.

March 29, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

Automate your Dev.to presence with the Forem API

Build scripts that track your Dev.to analytics, surface unanswered comments, monitor follower growth, and engage with your community automatically.

March 23, 2026 · 8 min · Russell

Flag untriaged GitHub issues automatically with Claude Code hooks

Use a Claude Code startup hook to surface untriaged GitHub issues and stale milestones before you write any code.

March 22, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

Wiring Spec Drift Detection Into Your Monorepo

How to turn a spec drift detector from a script nobody runs into a hard gate across your task runner, git hooks, and CI pipeline.

March 18, 2026 · 5 min · Russell